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Restoring Virginia's Wetlands, a Citizen's Toolkit THE ALLIANCE FOR THE CHESAPEAKE BAY AND THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENtaL QUALITY 2005 RESTORING VIRGINIA’s WETLANDS A CITIZEN’S TOOLKIT STacEY MOULDS, HADLEY MILLIKEN, JENNIFER SIDLECK AND BRENDA WINN GRAPHIC DESIGN BY LAUREN COLEMAN You Are Invited All across Virginia, wetlands are serving many important functions. They promote water recharge in streams and rivers, provide vital wildlife habitat, support biodiversity, help cleanse polluted waters, help alleviate flooding and provide a variety of other important biological functions. Healthy wetlands greatly contribute to a healthy environment. You are invited to learn more about Virginia’s wealth of wetlands and help make them as pristine and plentiful as they can be for the health of the environment, our aesthetic enjoyment, and educational opportunities, for current as well as future generations. Take a look inside and contribute to Virginia’s wetlands. So the time is now to face what’s at hand To clean up the water and clean up the land And we owe it to the future to preserve and protect The gift that we have It’s not ours to neglect ~Don Shappelle from the song, “Chesapeake Dream” Forward The purpose of “Restoring Virginia’s Wetlands – A Citizen’s ToolKit” is to provide the Citizens of Virginia with information concerning wetlands and to promote the voluntary protection, enhancement, restoration and creation of wetlands on private as well as public lands within the Commonwealth. This ToolKit provides information to Virginia’s landowners, both private and public, on the status of wetlands, various options for the use and management of their wetlands, current regulatory protection as well as voluntary efforts, and technical and financial resources for protection, enhancement, restoration and creation projects. This ToolKit guides you through the background information necessary to understand wetland functions and values. Included in this ToolKit are the basics regarding wetland identification, types and classification as well as types of wetland monitoring to learn more about wetlands. Acknowledgements The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay and Virginia Department of Environmental Quality would like to express their appreciation for the opportunity to provide this ToolKit, which was developed through a grant award from the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Wetlands Program Development Grants initiative. Special thanks to those individuals representing various conservation nonprofit organizations and state and Federal agencies who helped with this manual through advice on its content as well as review. Disclaimer Although this project was funded through the EPA, it does not necessarily reflect the opinion, position or policy of the EPA or the DEQ. The user of this ToolKit is responsible for keeping up to date with changes in the Federal, state and local permit regulations and requirements, scientific literature, web page locations or resource information provided in thisToolKit. Photos: Front cover: Green Heron at Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens, Richmond VA – photograph by Stacey Moulds. Back Cover: Marsh Periwinkle snails in salt marsh on Virginia’s Eastern Shore – Photograph by Mara Dovis, freelance photographer www.marafoto.com. Forward Table of Contents Section 1: Wetlands 101 1 Introduction to Wetlands 1 What is a Wetland? 3 What Makes it a Wetland? A more in depth look at wetland hydrology, soils, vegetation and animals 6 How can I tell if my site is a wetland? 7 Wetland Functions and Values Section 2: Getting to Know Virginia’s Wetlands 9 Our Commonwealth’s Wetlands: a “Wealth” of variety, including some that are not that “Common” 15 “A Wetland By Any Other Name” – Understanding the NWI Wetland Classification System 15 Wetlands to See, Wildlife to Meet – Visiting Virginia’s Public Wetlands Section 3: What’s Going On with Virginia’s Wetlands? 19 How Are Our Wetlands Doing? Status and Trends of Virginia’s Wetlands 23 How are Virginia Wetlands Protected? Regulations to Ensure “No Net Loss’ 27 Voluntary Efforts for “Net Gain”of Wetlands in Virginia Section 4: Taking Action! Voluntary Wetland Activities 29 Take Action! Basic Ways to help 30 Hands on Voluntary Wetland Activities: Introducing Protection, Enhancement, Creation and Restoration 35 Informational Tools for Targeting Potential Sites for Voluntary Wetland Activities 41 Getting Help – Resources for Financial and Technical Assistance 49 Wetland Permitting and Delineations – Information for Voluntary Wetland Activities 54 Case Studies Section 5: Volunteer-Based Wetland Monitoring 59 Introduction to Monitoring Wetlands 61 Getting to Know Your Wetland: Visual-Based Wetland Monitoring 62 Hands-On Wetland Monitoring 64 Monitoring Resources for Visual and Hands-On Wetland Monitoring 67 Acronyms and Abbreviations 69 Glossary 73 Literature Cited 76 Additional Acknowledgements Table of Contents 1 Wetlands 101 Introduction to Wetlands Before trekking off into the world of wetlands, it is necessary to define a word that most of you know but some may not! This word is watershed. A watershed is an area of land that drains to a common waterway, including a wetland, stream, river, lake, or even an ocean. Imagine that when it rains, all the water within a watershed ultimately “All Life has its roots in the meeting of flows to the same waterway. Watersheds can vary in size, from just a earth and water” ~ T.H. Watkins few square feet for a vernal pool or for thousands of square miles for huge watersheds such as the Chesapeake Bay. Recent environmental What’s Your Watershed movements have focused their attention on watershed stewardship and restoration. Wetlands make up an integral part of watersheds no matter Address? how large or small! To find out what watershed you live in, Virginians use their diverse land types in many different ways — for visit the U.S. Environmental Protection living, working, farming, ranching, and recreation, to name a few. Agency’s (EPA’s) “Surf Your Watershed” These uses often encroach on and affect wetlands, lands where water web site: http://www.epa.gov/surf/ is the dominant factor determining soil, plant and wildlife diversity. These impacts raise difficult questions of balancing land use needs and environmental effects: How can we balance the needs of property owners to farm or build on their land while maintaining the beneficial functions of natural wetlands? How can we respect individual property rights and assure that necessary development and traditional land uses continue while conserving both publicly and privately owned wetlands? The answers to these questions will continue to be addressed with public education on the values and functions of wetlands and how our land-use choices affect these precious environmental resources (McCarthy, 2001). It is obvious that wetlands offer much more subtlety, surprise, mystery and value than superficial observations may suggest. We encourage you to continue to learn about the wondrous areas where land meets the water, where life abounds and the sights and sounds of the natural world come alive. That way you can better appreciate just how unique and valuable they are to Virginia’s natural resources! What is a Wetland? Wetlands…the word alone invites your senses to travel to a wet and wonderful place teeming with life. Wetlands are magical wet, soggy or boggy places. Wetlands force you to slow down and take notice of the sights, smells, and sounds of nature as your boots get stuck in the muddy ground below. When you enter a wetland it is as if a curtain is pulled back revealing a secret oasis and a symphony of sound; tall grasses sway in the breeze creating soothing music, the moist ground provides a rich home for melodious spring peepers, beautiful yet endangered lady slipper orchids, or the elusive Virginia rail. They are places of diversity and beauty, where odd-shaped pitcher plants capture insects for nutrients, a chorus of bullfrogs fill the night air, or the call of the Prothonotary Warbler echoes in the spring (Thomson & Luthin, 2004). Wetlands fill the onlooker with awe and a reverence for the diversity and beauty of nature. Wetlands are the link between the water and the land. “Wetlands” from being drained (Firehock et al., 1998). According to the is the collective term for marshes, swamps, bogs, and similar NRCS: areas typically found between land and water along the edges of streams, rivers, lakes and coastlines. Although most wetlands “Wetlands are defined as areas that have a predominance of have standing or flowing water for at least part of the year, many and that are inundated or saturated by surface are dry for part of the year. In fact, some of the most important hydric soils or ground water at a frequency and duration sufficient to wetlands are only seasonally wet. Many different wetland types support, and under normal circumstances do support, a occur throughout Virginia due to our commonwealth’s variability prevalence of hydrophytic vegetation typically adapted for in topography, climate, soil, hydrology, salinity, vegetation life in saturated soil conditions…” and other factors (White, 1989). Wetlands provide vital habitat for thousands of aquatic plants and animals, providing food as well as critical nursery grounds for these species. Wetlands help absorb excess nutrients and sediment before they reach streams Scientific Definition and rivers. They slow and absorb floodwaters and recharge The most commonly used scientific definition was published in groundwater supplies. Wetlands serve as rich educational 1979 in the report, “Classification of Wetlands and Deepwater venues for all ages as well as serene places to canoe, bird Habitats of the United States (Cowardin, Carter, Golet & LaRoe, watch, hike, fish or to just “be” in the silence of nature (United 1979), for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). This States Environmental Protection Agency [EPA], September definition is utilized by the FWS to conduct wetland inventories 2001). within the United States: Wetland Definitions “ Wetlands are lands transitional between terrestrial Part of the complexity and confusion with defining wetlands and aquatic systems where the water table is usually is that they are very diverse.
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